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Show HONEYMOONERS ABROAD EDNA TELLS JACK SHE'S JEALOUS i BY ZOE BECKXI Y BEGIN DERI rOBAY. Will business secrets erect an Intangible Intan-gible but real barrier between the young bride, EDNA, and her husband. JACK DURYEA, during their honeymoon? honey-moon? Edna has feared this, but now the fears- have disappeared. Jack tells her that his firm Is sending send-ing him abroad secretly to investigate inves-tigate their European representative. representa-tive. COUSINS, whom they suspect of Intrigue. In-trigue. Edna promises to assist her husband In his "secret and confidential confi-dential mission." (,o (i WITH THE STORY. A sweet sense of partnership now endeared them to each other all the more intensely They spent hours on1 deck talking ov(Sr plans for winning Cousins' confidence and withstanding his anticipated blandishments. That It would not bo easy to combine com-bine a honeymoon trip with a ' hunting" hunt-ing" trip was evident to both, but each kept up a pretense of confidence. confi-dence. One night as the ship was approaching approach-ing Naples they ran Into a storm, a squally thing, that proved to be more noise than danger. Hut the wall of the wind and the uneasy motion of tho ship wrought Its own mood upon Edna, as she lay awake, marveling that Jack could Blet i through It all like a baby. Queer. Insensitive creatures men! Yet how Inordinately sensitive to business. busi-ness. Two or throe times Edna had felt real pangs of jealousy at Jack's preoccupation with the problems of Cousins and the old electric supplies corporation. Visions of a husband increasingly losing interest in her and devoting It to business finally conjured up such vivid pictures of unhapplness in store that Edna sat up in sudden fright. Her husband was lying quietly, his profile to her. It seemed that unless un-less she received Instant assurance from his she would have to cry out. She touched his face gently "Slash the price," murmured Jack, "and we'll double the demand ch: what Is It Oh. Edlel" And upfhe sat. startled. Edna had been ready to laugh her eiieer, insensitive creatures, men! ' ! nightmaio away at his waking She did laugli sheepishly as sho said: "I'm sorry, dear. I Just felt so frightened the storm and everything. Go back to your dreams. Pleasant, were they?" "I'll tell tho world," he laughed, 'sleepily. "Dreamed I was made European Eu-ropean manager Instead of Cousins and was laying down the law to -.he bosses by transatlantic telephone! Some droam. hey. Kits?" I "I'm Jealous of 11." The words i slipped out, despite her. "You needn't be. You'd have come into the dream tho ,next minute-. You're In my heart always." He drew her head gently toward him and kissed her. 'And renu mber, we're partners. My business Is yours, too. Can't separate sepa-rate 'em why. what's up. the boat's stopped!" Together they peered through the porthole The throb of engines had ceased. Through the velvet darkness outside their little round window came suddenly the blinding flash of a revolving re-volving searchlight, and. when its beam had slanted away, tho scattered night lights of a big city, shining thickly at tho water-level, with a few scattered ones high up. like bright bubbles rising "Land"' Jack cried excitedly. "It's Naples' Europe' Oh, Edna, dearest!" dear-est!" They clung together all premonitions premoni-tions gone. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1522. NEA Service) |